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Ashley Morgan recordings archive

by Enormous on June 5, 2011

Ashley Morgan made a lot of recordings over the years and today Steve and I finished archiving them all, up until today’s date, on a number of formats including tape and mini-disc. Ashley Morgan had a habit of recording everything he ever did on mini-disc so this was a long process!

Most of the recordings were intact so the process was pretty easy once we had figured out how to get all of the necessary pieces of equipment to talk to each other.

Some of these recordings are going to be remastered for vinyl distribution but the majority have been catalogued and archived purely for personal reasons. While this process will almost certainly be part of Ashley’s move to analogue it’s also an interesting study in how to archive audio in a number of formats and a valuable lesson for any studio engineer, old or new.

Ashley, you owe us a big drink!

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New jazz stuff!

by Enormous on June 3, 2011

A whole box of jazz stuff arrived today and I have no idea what it’s for. I say jazz stuff, but I don’t really know, it’s all clip on microphones and stuff like that, stuff that jazz musicians use. You know the sort of thing. Probably another one of Ashley Morgan’s record label sponsorship deals that means I’m going to go and have to put another little sticker on my amp.

I’ll telephone Ashley to see if he has any idea about the delivery. If he doesn’t come round and help me before 4.00pm I’ll stick it all on eBay.

Don’t worry. I’m joking, I’m joking…

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Ashley Morgan, jazz musician, jazz trumpet player and record label owner is now the proud owner of what we in the old school music business (I’m showing my age there, sorry about that readers) call a catalogue.

Ashley Morgan has spent months in the studio (with help from yours truly, studio engineer to the stars) getting everything ready before sending it off to the vinyl monkeys who handle the kind of stuff that mere studio engineers can’t do.

To order any of Ashley Morgan’s jazz records click here and get in touch with him.

p.s I almost forgot, please don’t keep sending us email about other Ashley Morgans. There are plenty of Ashley Morgans on the web, including that blasted Lady Gaga tribute act.

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I just realised that I made a pun in my last post but didn’t make the most of it.

I said that Big Arena Records (the label that I set up with Ashley Morgan and Paul Varga all those years ago) following the lead of Ashley Morgan’s other record labels and going analogue. I then went on to say that Audrey was being employed as chief stamp licker.

Audrey is a dog.

Following the lead.

Get it?

I’ll get my coat and return with other record label and dog inspired puns.

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Big Arena Records, the independent record label started by yours truly along with Ashley Morgan and Paul Varga has just recruited its latest member.

Audrey.

Big Arena Records has followed the lead of Ashley Morgan’s other record labels and gone analogue, leading us back into a world that we are much more familiar and comfortable with.

Audrey’s role is chief stamp licker, a job that she relishes and one that is very important in this new analogue age we are going back to.

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Audrey has become a fan of Enormous and also a fan of my, Paul Varga and Ashley Morgan’s record label Big Arena Records. She will be issued with two fan rosettes sometime later today once we pick them up from the printers. The local press have been informed and have promised to send their top hot-shot photographer to mark the occasion.

Today the Mansfield Chad (the local free rag), tomorrow the world. Because if we can persuade one newspaper to take a photograph of a dog becoming a fan of a band and our record label and get some local interest then who knows what we can blag from the hungry news hounds (no dog pun intended).

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inbox zero for musicians

by Enormous on March 4, 2011

Inbox zero for musicians is easy. Read your email when it arrives. Reply to it if you want to. Then delete it.

Simple.

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